Neill Borowski, managing editor, Democrat and Chronicle

Neill Borowski joined the Democrat and Chronicle as managing editor in April 2006. This is his second time through Rochester. From 1977 to 1983 he worked for The Times-Union and the Democrat and Chronicle. He left, as business editor, in 1983 and joined The Philadelphia Inquirer to cover the break-up of AT&T and the Bell System. After 21 years in various reporting and editing positions at The Inquirer, he joined The Indianapolis Star as assistant managing editor/local news in 2004. Borowski received his master’s in journalism from Columbia University, was a Knight Bagehot Fellow at Columbia (where he attended the business school and researched economic statistics and indicators) and did graduate work in economics and statistics at Temple University. At The Inquirer, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and with a reporting partner won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from Harvard University.